You can find my letter to the editor of the New York Times in response to an op-ed by Benny Gantz at the link below, and a longer version of my response follows after that…
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The Blogs: Not just for times of crisis: Mental-health care and the holidays | Rami Khouri
Imagine yourself sitting at the holiday table on Sukkot eve. The candles are lit, familiar scents of cooking fill the air, family gathers around the table. Smiles decorate the faces, everything seems perfect.
But while everyone is happy and…
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The Blogs: American academia is failing to protect a religious minority | Robin Friedman
The rise in antisemitism across the United States is unmistakable. Our esteemed institutions of higher learning are now serving as ground zero amid an alarming trend of intolerance and hostility towards Jewish students. As anti-Jewish and…
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The Blogs: Sanae Takaichi: Japan’s “mini-revolution” | Gilles Touboul
Japanese politics is often described as a codified universe, dominated by party rites, faction balances and a form of institutional continuity that contrasts with the electoral volatility observed in Europe or the United States. Since the…
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The Blogs: Enormity of the scale of antisemitism in Britain | Harold Behr
There has been a wave of heartfelt sympathy directed towards the British Jewish community following the latest terrorist incident at a Manchester synagogue involving a murderous attack on worshippers by a hate-fuelled Jihadi fanatic….
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The Blogs: The War on the Jews: Echoes of 1938 | Maccabi Lev Ari
From Manchester to D.C. to Boulder — and from the UN to the BBC — the very institutions built to prevent another Holocaust are repeating the moral collapse that once enabled it.
If you ever wondered what 1938 felt like, look around.
On
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The Blogs: Remembering Jalal Talabani (Mam Jalal), the First Kurdish president of Iraq | Manish Rai
I had the opportunity to visit the headquarters of the PUK Media Board in Sulaymaniyah during my visit to Iraqi Kurdistan in December last year. Due to my visit, I was able to acquire additional information regarding Jalal Talabani, the…
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The Blogs: The Hebrew Bible and the Qur’an Both Demand No Idols | Allen S. Maller
The Qur’am states: [39:65] “It has been revealed to you (Muslims), and to those before you (Jews and Christians), that if you ever commit idol worship, all your (pious) works will be nullified, and you will be with the losers.”
Sadly…
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The Blogs: A terror group can’t be half-peaceful | Cedric Vloemans
Why Hamas’s “partial” acceptance of Trump’s Gaza plan is a trap, not a breakthrough.
Hamas’s so-called “partial acceptance” of Trump’s Gaza plan is being hailed as progress. In reality, it exposes the same strategy that has…
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The Blogs: Why the Gaza Flotilla Can’t Just ‘Bring Aid’ | Sabine Sterk
Why the Gaza Flotilla Can’t Just ‘Bring Aid’
Every time a flotilla sails toward Gaza, the same question echoes: Why not just let them in? Why does Israel insist on inspecting every crate, every sack, every shipment? To many, it looks…
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